Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-11
WASHINGTON NOTES.

INTERVIEW WITH SENATOR NJ DONALD.
WASHINGTON. Nov. Senator
Mcdonald of Indiana WAS seen to-nighr
in the lobby OF the Riggs house and
asked mis- opinion of the proposition for
the government to take hold of the tele
graph system and operate it in connec-
ton with the postal service. He said:
81 am against it. don't believe in the
government taking hold of any private
enterprise, and we must not give the
government too much power"
Isn't the relation If the telegraph to
the government on the same footing as
the mdils?"
"No, the mails are indispensable TO the
government, therefore it becomes neces-
sary for the government to control them
The government can use the existing tel
egraph for its purpose, end line OF its
own is not indispensable TO carry out the
orders of the government. No, I'm Op-
posed to postal telegraph"
"Don't you think the subject will come
up for discussion IL the House this win
ter?"
81 can't tell, but presume il viii"
TOAID IN THE PROSECUTION.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5-Hon. Z. NJ,
Watson of Mississippi, United States As
sistant Attorney of the Department Of
Justice, has been selected hy the Attor-
pey- General to act in conjunction with
| United States District Attorney Barnet OF
Cincinnati in prosecuting the parties re-
Gently indicted for completely in the
Fidelity Bsnk robbery, ard leaves to
morrow for Cincinnati to take part IN the
trial, which will begin with thaC OF Hnr-
per, the vice president, on the 29Ih. The
trial cases have attracted universal atten-
| tioD-not only on account Of the magni-
tCda of the steal and the prominence
of the parties implicated, but on account
of the influence which these trials are
| likely to have On public confidence in the
national banking system. The govern
ment has made earnest fort to bring the
guilty parties to the bar Of Justice and 1t
is evident that the prosecution will be
vigorous and efficient. Since his ccnnec-
| ton with the Department Of Justice Mr..
Watson has earned an enVisble reputa-
tion here and hes taken high rank both as
lawyer and advocate.
NO LONGER A NEWSPAPER MAN.
| WASHINGTON, Nov. 5-Sherourne G..
| Hopkins, the young newspaperman VINO
| sent that iniernal mschine to Justice
Waite, is in good way to go to the peni
ten tiary for his freak. To-day his case
and that of the youth who assisted him
came up in the police Court. number
! Of correspondents were on hand, but oW-
| ing to the fact that the prosecution had
been unable to obtain ell the witnesses s
| postponement until next Saturday wss
asked and granted. The charge fled
against the defendants is obtaining money
under false pretenses from the CORE
| spondent who bought the story. Another
charge, the District Attorney said, would
be fled against them, but its nature he
refused to disclose. Hopkins will be de-
MED the privileges Of the press gallery al
| the capital which means that as news
paper man here his career IS ended.
Mexican war, Lucinda, widow of Vincent
Martin, Paris; Natalie, widow OF Edgar
Merrell, Schulenburg; Mexican war,
Vance Walling, Barksdale; George Ea
ton, Overton; James Tucker, Morris
Spencer a. Gregory, Commerce; John
". O'Nesl, Corsicana; Valentine Orr,
Barksdale; Elias ID Koker, Otto.
PRESENT FROM JAMAICA.
| WASHINGTON, Nov 5-Mrs. Cleveland
| GU-uny EcCclNcu lEOm mE' cICO Co1ilfaHi
postmaster a. Jamaica, through Superin-
tendent Bell of the foreign mail service,
an elaborate and handsome fan made at
| the Woman's Self-Help Institution OF
Jamaics, OF ferns, flowers and native
woods artistically arranged. In a letter
accompanying the fan Mr.. Sullivan says
it is intended as present, but as an Offer
ing of what Jamaica has to given ID re-
turn for the great boon of the parcel post
exchange between the United States and
Jamaica recently approved.
THE RED MANS ALTERNATIVE.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 Secretary Lamsr
to day received the follow ng telegram
from Indian Inspector Armstrong. dated
Crow Agency, M. T., November 5, 1887:
General Ruger and troops are here. The
Indians are c.mped below the agency. 4
demand has been made for the surrender
of the Indians engaged in the trouble OF
September 800 II resistance is made
the Indians must take the consequences.
When arrested they should be sent eway.
Cheathana's Chill Tonic contains neither
poisons nor quintue, pleasant and guar
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